Disable linting message by UI

[otaj]

Hi,

would it be possible to add a feature for disabling linting message on request? I quite often write code, that sometimes generates some pylint/flake8/mypy warning, which I am actually aware of, but choose to write it in such a way anyway.

Then I have to manually add a comment such as # pylint: disable=unused-argument to the end of such line to suppress warning on that particular line.

would it be possible to have a button/context menu for each warning (and obviously not anything worse than warning) to add such a comment automatically?

Thanks

[kimadeline]

Hello @otaj , thank you for reaching out.

As you can see here, there are quite a number of pylint messages, and adding a button for every single one of them wouldn't be feasible.

Have you taken a look at settings like python.pylintArgs where you can specify which messages to ignore? Here's the extension documentation, and a relevant Stack Overflow question.

In any case, this issue is now marked as "needs decision" to make sure we have a conversation about your idea. We plan to leave this feature request open for at least a month to see how many 👍 votes your idea gets to help us make our decision.

[otaj]

Hi,

I don't think you quite understood what I meant. I did not mean to add a button for every single type of warning message pylint could possibly produce, that would be pointless. What I meant was that on every instance of warning, it would be nice to selectively silence it.

Of course, I know about the option to silence some type of warning messages, but I would still like to keep those warnings, they often prove useful, unless I explicitly know, what I am doing and explicitly silence the warning.

[kimadeline]

We get questions and requests from a wide variety of users, some of them absolute beginners and others like you who are more comfortable with Python and the extension, so I was simply pointing out existing options 🙂

In your case, you mean something like a quick fix suggestion which would add a # pylint: disable=something comment (with a TypeScript example here)?

[otaj]

Exactly! Ideally only for the specific line, not globally for a file.

[luabud]

Thanks for the suggestion 👍 but we decided not to move forward with this idea for now.